From a Utah church to a Denver museum: the man who found 75 pyramids in the US

<p>Over a decade, Ian James captured an array of pyramid structures across 20 US states, now documented in a new book</p><p>On a summer afternoon in 2017, Los Angeles-based artist Ian James found himself at the Pain Reliever Bar &amp; Grill, the only functioning establishment in Nekoma, North Dakota.</p><p>Lingering until midnight, while trying not to look too much like a Californian in a town of less than 30 residents, James struck up a conversation with a local couple who explained how to gain access to the Stanley R Mickelsen Safeguard Complex. The former anti-ballistic missile military facility, constructed during the cold war and only operational for six months before being decommissioned, was his destination: specifically, its brutalist concrete radar tower resembling an Egyptian pyramid without an apex.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/02/pyramids-in-the-us-ian-james-book">Continue reading...</a>